Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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Action Chains: Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Adding Emotions to Your Story: One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Appositive Action: Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an appositive phrase.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Awesome Action Words: Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Bubble gum rubric scoring: This lesson is intended to help children more clearly understand rubrics and how the State of North Carolina grades the writing test.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and English Language Arts); By Becky Donatelli.

Christmas Carol Chronology: Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts); By Judy Gibbs.

Chronology: The time of my life: In their study of chronology the students will use personal timelines and an activity sheet to demonstrate the importance of intact information to achieve accuracy, and compare and contrast their timelines with the chronological information contained in a stratified archaeological site.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Dear Peter Rabbit: Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Information Skills and English Language Arts); By Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson, and Stephanie Johnson.

Description as Mind Control: Using Details to Help Readers Visualize Your Story: Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Discovering Just the Right Word: Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Exciting Narrative Endings: This lesson emphasizes the importance of a strong ending for a narrative essay and
teaches students specific items to include in their endings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By Ann Jolly.

First Draft/Final Draft: Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Great beginnings: Good beginnings hook readers and make them want to continue reading. Students will learn the features of good beginnings by reading the beginnings of several narrative picturebooks, and then writing good beginnings for their own narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Great endings: Sometimes authors end their stories with a memory, a feeling, a wish, or a hope. Other times they end the story by referring back to the language of the beginning. In this lesson, students will examine the characteristics of good endings by reading good endings of narrative picture books. They will then practice writing good endings for their own narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases: Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Elizabeth Hutchens.

Jazzy Sentences: This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Helen Potts.

Let's Become Chefs!: The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By Sarah Ann Parker.

Little Bit ? BIG BIT ? Little Bit: This lesson helps students who tend to jump right in and tell their entire story in the first few sentences and then struggle to complete their story. Students will learn to start and end their stories with just a "Little Bit" about the setup and closure of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Meanwhile - Transition Words that Connect Ideas: Students will identify transition words in picturebooks that they can use in their own writing. Transition words are the glue that holds sentences and paragraphs together. They signal that this is a new part of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

More Vivid Word Choices-Said Is Dead: The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonymns for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellog, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts); By Linda Justice.

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